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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2023 Julyvillgax

About an Nvidia driver release and what would truly test LLM coding.

True test of LLM based coding would be to enable Nvidia cards via eGPU on Apple Silicon using this or Asahi Linux work for ML/DL tasks. Would allow for separate upgrade paths for GPU compute & main device instead of having to keep another PC just for local experiments

LLM-based coding gets Nvidia cards working over eGPU on Apple Silicon for ML tasks.

Has this happened?

Yes 13 (12%)Not sure 75 (70%)No 19 (18%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.